Re: bug in hyperlink and footnote?

2009-04-18 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Sunday 19 April 2009 00:24:38 schrieb James Sutherland: > I think that I may have found a bug in LyX. > > 1. Create a footnote. > 2. In the footnote, insert a hyperlink > 3. In the "target" field of the hyperlink, insert a URL with a "#" > sign in it, i.e. www.example.com/#1 > > Latex fails to

Using tables

2009-04-18 Thread Doug Laidlaw
I am probably out of place here, but there is a project on freshmeat.net for convering CSV tables to LaTeX. It may be of use? http://freshmeat.net/projects/csv2latex Doug.

Re: bug in hyperlink and footnote?

2009-04-18 Thread James Sutherland
I can confirm the problem on Mac OS X 10.5.6 with TeXLive 2008. Here's the error message (repeated 3 times): Illegal parameter number in definition of \...@tempa. } You meant to type ## instead of #, right? Or maybe a } was forgotten somewhere earlier, and things are all screwed up? I'm going t

Re: bug in hyperlink and footnote?

2009-04-18 Thread BH
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 7:50 PM, James Sutherland wrote: > > On Apr 18, 2009, at 5:27 PM, Stefano Franchi wrote: > >> On Saturday 18 April 2009 17:24:38 James Sutherland wrote: >>> >>> I think that I may have found a bug in LyX. >>> >>> 1. Create a footnote. >>> 2. In the footnote, insert a hyperl

Re: cocoAspell works with Lyx in Tiger, not Leopard

2009-04-18 Thread Anders Host-Madsen
Richard Talley writes: > Any suggestions? Anybody on the list successfully using cocoAspell > with LyX on Leopard? It works fine for me under Leopard. I don't believe I did anything specialto install it, just follow the instructions. Maybe try to uninstall and reinstall?

Re: bug in hyperlink and footnote?

2009-04-18 Thread James Sutherland
On Apr 18, 2009, at 5:27 PM, Stefano Franchi wrote: On Saturday 18 April 2009 17:24:38 James Sutherland wrote: I think that I may have found a bug in LyX. 1. Create a footnote. 2. In the footnote, insert a hyperlink 3. In the "target" field of the hyperlink, insert a URL with a "#" sign in it

Re: bug in hyperlink and footnote?

2009-04-18 Thread Stefano Franchi
On Saturday 18 April 2009 17:24:38 James Sutherland wrote: > I think that I may have found a bug in LyX. > > 1. Create a footnote. > 2. In the footnote, insert a hyperlink > 3. In the "target" field of the hyperlink, insert a URL with a "#" > sign in it, i.e. www.example.com/#1 > > Latex fails to

Re: JurabibMLA

2009-04-18 Thread Richard Talley
An alternative solution might be mla-paper. http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/mla-paper/ -- Rich On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Stefano Franchi wrote: > On Saturday 18 April 2009 16:25:29 cmira...@kde-france.org wrote: >> Tim Smeilus wrote: >> > hi all, >> > >> > I need to

Re: Above-Title Figure in KOMA-Script Article Class? -- SOLVED

2009-04-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 18 Apr 2009, Uwe Stoehr wrote: How about \vspace*{-5cm} (LyX supports this) or \phantom{ }\vspace*{-5cm} Uwe, Neither of those had any effect. What I did (after spending too much time going around in circles), was to generate a new .pdf file with smaller and more symmetrical borders

bug in hyperlink and footnote?

2009-04-18 Thread James Sutherland
I think that I may have found a bug in LyX. 1. Create a footnote. 2. In the footnote, insert a hyperlink 3. In the "target" field of the hyperlink, insert a URL with a "#" sign in it, i.e. www.example.com/#1 Latex fails to compile this document. A hyperlink with a "#" in the target works as

Re: JurabibMLA

2009-04-18 Thread Stefano Franchi
On Saturday 18 April 2009 16:25:29 cmira...@kde-france.org wrote: > Tim Smeilus wrote: > > hi all, > > > > I need to write an assignment for college and I need it in MLA format. I > > just can't figure out how to make lyx use that format. All research over > > the net didn't help my out yet. > > I

cocoAspell works with Lyx in Tiger, not Leopard

2009-04-18 Thread Richard Talley
Hello LyX-Users, I installed MacTeX 2008, cocoAspell 2.0.4.i86, Skim 1.2.1, and LyX 1.6.2 on an Intel Mac running Leopard (10.5.6). I have almost exactly the same setup on my personal machine except it's MacTeX 2007, Tiger (10.4.11) and, obviously, cocoAspell 2.0.4.ppc. Works like a charm on my

Re: Question on \setkomafont{}{}

2009-04-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 18 Apr 2009, cmira...@kde-france.org wrote: Try \renewcommand\sectfont{\rmfamily} Not very logical Charles, That's the old KOMA-script way. And, Bob's suggestion of using the sectioning alias to dispositioning (Table 3.3 in the manual) works like a charm. Thank you, Rich -- R

Re: JurabibMLA

2009-04-18 Thread cmiramon
Tim Smeilus wrote: > hi all, > > I need to write an assignment for college and I need it in MLA format. I > just can't figure out how to make lyx use that format. All research over > the net didn't help my out yet. > I would be glad about all helpful response. > > thnx Tim Smeilus Biblatex-mla

Re: Question on \setkomafont{}{}

2009-04-18 Thread cmiramon
Bob Lounsbury wrote: >> From the KOMA-script doc I see that I can use the >> \setkomafont{element}{command} directive to change the typeface for >> specific >> document elements. >> >> Rather than the san-serif font for the title and section heads, I prefer >> to use the default body text typefac

Wrong placement with EPS graphics in pdflatex

2009-04-18 Thread Thomas Steffen
Hi All I noticed recently that I a lot of EPS graphics end up in the wrong place with the pdflatex backend. I guess it has to do with the bounding box, and somehow it is wrongly set during the conversion process. Then the picture ends up in the wrong place, or it is (partially) invisible if clippi

Re: Question on \setkomafont{}{} -- ANSWERED

2009-04-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 18 Apr 2009, Bob Lounsbury wrote: Don't have access to LyX at the moment. Does \setkomafont{sectioning}{} work for unnumbered sections? Probably not, but I thought I'd ask. Bob, Wow! It certainly does! It did not occur to me to try that, but it sure does the job. Many thanks, Rich

Re: Question on \setkomafont{}{}

2009-04-18 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > From the KOMA-script doc I see that I can use the > \setkomafont{element}{command} directive to change the typeface for > specific > document elements. > > Rather than the san-serif font for the title and section heads, I prefer > to use the

Re: Above-Title Figure in KOMA-Script Article Class?

2009-04-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 18 Apr 2009, Uwe Stoehr wrote: How about \vspace*{-5cm} Uwe, I had tried this without success. \phantom{ }\vspace*{-5cm} Just tried this version, but it also makes no difference. Does the koma script user guide not say anything about this? I searched for it but found not

Re: Above-Title Figure in KOMA-Script Article Class?

2009-04-18 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Rich Shepard schrieb: Now I need to figure out how to reduce the space between the titlehead and the title. Using \vspace{-5cm} just after the titlehead doesn't do the job. How about \vspace*{-5cm} (LyX supports this) or \phantom{ }\vspace*{-5cm} Does the koma script user guide not say

Question on \setkomafont{}{}

2009-04-18 Thread Rich Shepard
From the KOMA-script doc I see that I can use the \setkomafont{element}{command} directive to change the typeface for specific document elements. Rather than the san-serif font for the title and section heads, I prefer to use the default body text typeface of Palatino-Roman. I added to the pr

Re: Ghostscript 8.63: Unrecoverable error

2009-04-18 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
I would like to ask you again for your help. Perhaps there is somebody out there who had a similar difficulty with Lyx. This happens: I start lyx 1.6.2 (Debian sid) on a terminal and get on the terminal the following messages: > wolfg...@wolfgang:~/Buecher-D+E$ GPL Ghostscript 8.64: Unrecoverab

Re: A question

2009-04-18 Thread Anders Host-Madsen
There is also the enumitem package/module: wiki.lyx.org/Tips/Enumitem

Re: Above-Title Figure in KOMA-Script Article Class?

2009-04-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 18 Apr 2009, Rich Shepard wrote: I have some short (2-3 pages) business documents that I want to typeset rather than produce with OO.o's Writer. I know that the KOMA-Script letter class allows me to insert a PDF figure of our logo at the top of the first page, but I cannot find any info

Above-Title Figure in KOMA-Script Article Class?

2009-04-18 Thread Rich Shepard
I have some short (2-3 pages) business documents that I want to typeset rather than produce with OO.o's Writer. I know that the KOMA-Script letter class allows me to insert a PDF figure of our logo at the top of the first page, but I cannot find any information in the KOMA-Script document about

Re: crash when scrolling quickly down

2009-04-18 Thread rgheck
Erez Yerushalmi wrote: Hi All, Since I've started using lyx1.62 on windows XP, I've had quite a few crashes. I think it is when I quickly scroll down with the down arrow. Here is the output of the crash. Any ideas? You may be a having a known problem that involves hitting an arrow key whe

crash when scrolling quickly down

2009-04-18 Thread Erez Yerushalmi
Hi All, Since I've started using lyx1.62 on windows XP, I've had quite a few crashes. I think it is when I quickly scroll down with the down arrow. Here is the output of the crash. Any ideas? Thanks, Erez D:\LyX\lyx-1.6.2\src\insets\InsetBibtex.cpp(420): Couldn't find D:/Warwick_PHD/LITERATURE

Re: [Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents

2009-04-18 Thread Niko Schwarz
oh, i didn't know that's possible! hmm, that would solve the update thing! niko On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 2:47 PM, BH wrote: > On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 5:38 AM, Christian Ridderström > wrote: > > On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Niko Schwarz wrote: > > > >> need to tar/untar anything. What was REALLY difficu

Re: [Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents

2009-04-18 Thread BH
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 5:38 AM, Christian Ridderström wrote: > On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Niko Schwarz wrote: > >> need to tar/untar anything. What was REALLY difficult was the .module I >> had written for the document. It cannot be accessed by a relative path; it >> needs to be inserted directly into

Re: Crash Reports

2009-04-18 Thread Doug Laidlaw
On Saturday 18 April 2009 10:05:22 pm Ken wrote: > Occasionally LyX will crash on me (current version 1.6.2). I have no > idea what causes it so I shouldn't really open a bug report. > > Is there some other way of reporting crashes? Could a LyX add-on > allow the program to send crash reports aut

JurabibMLA

2009-04-18 Thread Tim Smeilus
hi all, I need to write an assignment for college and I need it in MLA format. I just can't figure out how to make lyx use that format. All research over the net didn't help my out yet. I would be glad about all helpful response. thnx Tim Smeilus

Crash Reports

2009-04-18 Thread Ken
Occasionally LyX will crash on me (current version 1.6.2). I have no idea what causes it so I shouldn't really open a bug report. Is there some other way of reporting crashes? Could a LyX add-on allow the program to send crash reports automatically? Does anyone else experience occasional crashe

Re: [Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents

2009-04-18 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Niko Schwarz wrote: need to tar/untar anything. What was REALLY difficult was the .module I had written for the document. It cannot be accessed by a relative path; it needs to be inserted directly into the lyx tree. On OSX, I have to redo the module installation procedure

Fwd: Re: Ghostscript 8.63: Unrecoverable error

2009-04-18 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Sorry, lyx-list-users, I was discussing a problem I am having with Uwe Stoehr privately and made a mistake in sending it to the list. I will report the outcome to the list after having clarified it -hopefully- with his help Wolfgang

Re: Ghostscript 8.63: Unrecoverable error

2009-04-18 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Tuesday 14 April 2009 11:50:23 schrieb Guenter Milde: > On 2009-04-11, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > > My hope is, that something in TeXLive 2008 might cure the Unrecoverable > > error > > maybe before doing this we could rule out other problems: Could you post a > *minimal* example that exhibits